Vietnam Paper industry expands capacity
Vietnam's paper industry rapidly expanded capacity during 2010, adding eight major new production facilities with a total capacity of 430,000 tonnes per year....
GE Oil & Gas steam turbine powers green energy biomass project
A new green energy cogeneration plant at the Nippon Paper Industries, U.S.A., pulp and paper mill in Port Angeles, Wash., U.S.A., will feature a steam turbine generator supplied by GE Oil & Gas and powered by residue from local timber operations to generate 20 megawatts of power, becoming the first biomass project in the Port Angeles region of Washington state....
Two years energy savings gave UPM 55 million Euros
UPM's electricity and heat consumption has reduced by approximately nine percent per paper ton. In the past two years, UPM has gained a total of 55 million Euros from its energy savings activities and achieved seven percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. During the past two years, UPM has improved energy efficiency significantly by effective process and equipment modifications as...
Eldorado Pulp Mill to reach 1.5million tons pulp capacity with new fiberline
Andritz has received an order from Eldorado Papel eCelulose Ltda. (Eldorado Brasil) to supply a complete fiberline and other major equipment for the new pulp mill in Três Lagoas, Brazil. Start-up is scheduled for the third quarter of 2012. It was agreed not to disclose the order value....
M-real to expand folding boxboard capacity
M-real Corporation, part of Metsaliitto Group, plans to increase the annual folding boxboard capacity of Aanekoski and Kyroskoski mills in total by about 70,000 tonnes. The combined value of the planned investments in Aanekoski and Kyroskoski is approximately EUR 30 million. The Kyroskoski investment is planned to be completed in late 2011 and the Aanekoski investment in spring 2012....
Jeesr Induatries to install Metso tissue line Morocco
Metso will supply a complete tissue production line to the Moroccan Jeesr Industries for their mill in Berrechid, close to Casablanca. The line is scheduled to start up in the fourth quarter of 2012. The market value of a tissue production line of this type is in the range of EUR 15-20 million depending on the scope of the delivery...
AbitibiBowater to permanently close paper machine
AbitibiBowater announced that it will permanently close its No. 4 paper machine at its Coosa Pines, Alabama...
Shandong Huatai Paper starts up 700,000 TPA fine paper line
The Metso supplied coated fine paper production line, PM8, of Shandong Huatai Paper Co. Ltd came successfully on stream on Jan 18, 2011 in Dong Ying City, Shandong Province, China. The 8.1-m-wide PM 8 has an annual dimensional production capacity of close to 700,000 tonnes of coated and uncoated fine papers within the basis weight range of 80 to 200...
The Air Dissolving Reactor
The Air Dissolving Reactor is the latest device developed by Krofta. It can be used to dissolve air (or any other gas)in water (or any other liquid). It can also be used to dissolve a mixture of more than one gas into a mixture of more than one liquid....
Printpack India 2011 gets over 50,000 visitors
The 10th edition of Printpack India international exhibition, Printpack India 2011, was jointly organized by Indian Printing Packaging And Allied Machinery Manufacturer's Association (IPAMA) and India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO), at Pragati Maidan, from 16th to 21st January, 2011....